The Second Texts

The Sourcebook is the first in a planned series of artists’ books published by Independent Curators International, and Wilson, a Conceptual and performance artist with a strong investment in feminist politics, is a fitting figure to inaugurate the series. Since the early ’70s, her work has been abou...

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Published inBookforum - Artforum Vol. 18; no. 4
Main Author Aruna D’Souza
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Artforum Inc 01.12.2011
Subjects
Archives & records
Art exhibits
Beauvoir, Simone de (1908-1986)
Conceptual art
Essays
Feminism
Found objects
Goffman, Erving (1922-1982)
Performance art
Reagan, Nancy
Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Visual artists
Canada
United States > US
Nova Scotia Canada
California
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Summary:The Sourcebook is the first in a planned series of artists’ books published by Independent Curators International, and Wilson, a Conceptual and performance artist with a strong investment in feminist politics, is a fitting figure to inaugurate the series. Since the early ’70s, her work has been about identity as bricolage—a continuous performance of imperfectly juxtaposed, preexisting notions of femininity. The Sourcebook then runs riotously through a range of texts, including some expected feminist classics, as well as a few surprises: pages from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex; Lippard’s catalogue for the first feminist conceptual art show, 1973’s “c.7,500”; Linda Nochlin’s essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”; Roland Barthes’s Writing Degree Zero; and Angela Davis’s book Women, Race, and Class (the back cover features a photo of Nancy Reagan sitting on Mr. T’s lap). [...]the contingency and eccentricity of the Sourcebook’s assemblage prove to be its most intriguing features.
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ISSN:1098-3376